Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vakhtang VI of Kartli

King of Georgia

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1675

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1737

Profession: poet, historian

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Vakhtang VI (Georgian: ??????? VI), also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and ?osaynqoli Khan (Persian: ???????? ????, romanized: Hoseyn-Qoli Xan) (September 15, 1675 – March 26, 1737), was a Georgian monarch of the royal Bagrationi dynasty.
He ruled the East Georgian Kingdom of Kartli as a vassal of Safavid Persia from 1716 to 1724.
One of the most important and extraordinary statesman of early 18th-century Georgia, he is known as a notable legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet.
His reign was eventually terminated by the Ottoman invasion following the disintegration of Safavid Persia, which forced Vakhtang into exile in the Russian Empire.
Vakhtang was unable to get the tsar's support for his kingdom and instead had to permanently stay with his northern neighbors for his own safety.
On his way to a diplomatic mission sanctioned by Empress Anna, he fell ill and died in southern Russia in 1737, never reaching Georgia.